Ballou Education is a special education advocate in Calabasas. IEP and 504 advocacy for families in Las Virgenes Unified and the western San Fernando Valley.
Calabasas families are spread across a wide, quiet district where services can be excellent and still hard to access, because so much depends on which campus your child attends and which specialist happens to be assigned.
Most students here attend Las Virgenes Unified School District, which also serves Agoura Hills, Hidden Hills and Westlake Village. The district is well regarded, and its families are often well informed. What they need is not more information but a plan that survives staffing changes, campus transitions and the annual scramble for service minutes.
We help families build plans that are specific enough to be portable. That means naming the service, the frequency, the duration, the provider and the setting — and then putting progress monitoring in writing so implementation can be checked.
Staffing changes are the most common reason services quietly disappear. If your child’s provider leaves mid-year, the IEP obligation does not leave with them. We help families follow up and secure replacement services or compensatory minutes.
Tracking delivery and requesting compensatory services when minutes are missed.
Explore service monitoringServes Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Hidden Hills and Westlake Village across elementary, middle and high school.
Serves some adjacent neighborhoods in the western San Fernando Valley.
Several private schools serve the area; students may be eligible for district assessment and a services plan.
We review the IEP, progress notes and service logs.
We put missed services and unclear goals in writing to the district.
We attend the meeting and track the outcome.
The district must still deliver the service. If it cannot, it should offer a qualified replacement or compensatory minutes. Documenting the gap is essential.
You can request a service and explain why it is needed. The team decides the service, but the IEP must describe it specifically enough to be delivered and monitored.
Yes. LVUSD serves Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Hidden Hills and Westlake Village, which means district-level decisions affect all four communities.
Yes. We support LVUSD families in Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Hidden Hills and Westlake Village with IEPs, 504 plans, evaluations and service-delivery issues.
The district must still deliver the service. If it cannot, it should provide a qualified replacement or compensatory minutes, and documenting gaps in advance makes that request far stronger.
Free consultation for families in Calabasas and the Las Virgenes district.
